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Show READY JUNE 1749 The Orem-Geneva Times is your clearing-house for news about you and your neighbors. To. report social activities, success suc-cess stories of your friends and other items of general interest, telephone 13. To Sell it in Orem Tell It In the Orem-Geneva Times 4 HOME OF GENEVA STEEL Volume 11 No. 27 Orem, Utah, Thursday, June 12, 1947 Price, 5 cents CENTENNIAL FESTIVAL 0xtn etieto Wmi Festival Features Parades, Indians, Sports, Air Circus Orem's own tribute to the 1847 pioneers the Orem-Geneva Orem-Geneva Centennial Festival will get under way on Tuesday at 3 p.m. with the reception for the city's Centennial queen and her attendants, to continue through Wednesday and Thursday with activities scheduled every few hours through out the three days of festivities. The three-day program will include three parades, an air circus, flower show, sports carnival, car-nival, boxing and wrestling card, authentic Indian dances and dances for the public. The reception for Queen Lor-na Lor-na Anderson and her attendants, attend-ants, Carol Memmott and Jackie Faulkner, will be held at the Scera lounge on Tuesday from 3 to 6 p.m. Daughters of Utah pioneers are also to be special guests and the public is invited. The affair is to be sponsored by the combined women's clubs of Orem. Another Tuesday Festival event is the wrestling and boxing carnival car-nival set for the city park at 8 p.m. with Henry Jones tangling with Salt Lake City's Hy Shar-man Shar-man in the headline wrestling match. The card includes six boxing and wrestling bouts . The grand parade, with Dick Barnett of the Orem Jaycees as director .will begin at 10 a.m. on Wednesday and will feature floats from all sections of the state. Ox teams, Indians, covered cover-ed wagons, floats and novelty yf tries are slated for the parade. I riding exhibit by the Orem ?inT rMiiV urill fnllnw fhf parade and will be held at the city park. Roy E. Parks is president presi-dent of the riding club and Lu-zell Lu-zell Robbins is club captain. Beauty spot of the festival is exnected to be the flower show slated to open at noon on Wednesday Wed-nesday at the Scera lounge. Orem Or-em Garden club members will enter flower exhibits as well as local florists and at least one Salt Lake City florist. The flower flow-er arrangements are expected to be a highlight. Afternoon activities will feature feat-ure a variety of sports activities under the direction of Parlell Peterson. Included will be soft-ball, soft-ball, tug-of-wars, sports for the youngsters, and pioneer dances on the city Dark lawn. At 8 p. m. will be held the exhibition by the Indians from Whiterocks near the Ft. Duchesne Indian reservation. re-servation. The group will present pre-sent their war dances, Sun and Bear dances. Following the Indian exhibition exhib-ition will be held an exhibition Softball game under the lights of the city park which will feature feat-ure professional teams. Thursday's activities will feature feat-ure a miniature parade at 11 a. m., which will have children in pioneer costumes and portraying the Utah pioneers and their modes of work, travel and play. The aiv circus, under the direction di-rection Merrill Christonher-son Christonher-son of the Provo Municipal airport, air-port, will be held above the city park at 4:30 p.m. Thursday with snrrts activities to follow until un-til 6 nm. when will be held a second showing of the grand pa-ide. The evening's program will include old-fashioned and oioieer dances. Indian exhibits ati a softball game "nder the lieMs. mhe festival will be wound up wi'h the dance snonsored by the Or-m Chamber of Commerce. TTpading Orem's Centennial permittee i Oar H. Anderson. rh-irmn". The flowpr show is p-ri'WPd bv the Orem Garden 4 V'b. Lola Fowltoc rjrfl'dent- miniatnr" nnrp'lp is under JJV fji'roctinn of Mplba Pyne. O-om T,inr Trtill yr (W"Prs Today Vw'" r1p"toH nffipprs of th f)r T.'V""" "'Pro ips'pllp' a r-.ilnr lumpheon meeting npH Tnrdav evening. nill Rnbinson of Lehi conducted conduc-ted the ceremony. 'WXm!&r& w IV- A f Oscar H. Anderson, chairman of ihe Orem Centennial committee, who will direct activities during the coming festival. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS OREM-GENEVA CENTENNIAL CENTEN-NIAL FESTIVAL Tuesday, June 17 Carnival all day 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Reception at Scera auditorium for Orem Centennial Queen and attendants at-tendants 8 p.m. Big wrestling and bqx-ing bqx-ing carnival at Orem City Park under the direction of the Orem Lions. Tickets $1 and$.50 Wednesday, June 18 Carnival all day 10 a m. Big parade with ox teams, Indians, covered wagons, wag-ons, beautiful floats, from all over the state, lovely queens, etc. 11:30 a.m. Riding exhibition by the Orem Riding Club at the Orem City Park. 12 Noon Flower Show sponsored spon-sored by the Orem .Garden Club at Scera all day. 1 p.m. Softball, tugs-of-war, Indian-White rivalry, etc. 7:15 p.m. Pioneer Dances on the lawn at the Orem City Park. 8 p.m. Indian War Dances, Snake Dance, Sun Dance etc. 9 p.m. All-Star baseball game. Thursday, June 19 Carnival all day 11 a.m. Miniature Parade; hundreds of children dressed dress-ed in pioneer costume. 1 p.m. Soft ball, Sports, Ind-. Ind-. ian-White Rivalry, etc. 8 p.m. Indian Dances, dem-' dem-' onstrations, etc. 9 p.m. Big Dance. NEW APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED IN SHARON STAKE Recent new appointments to sake positions bring the Sharon Stake organization to near completion, com-pletion, according to President Henry D. Taylor. Weldon J. Taylor will be re-ka??d re-ka??d from the high council and his successor will be his brother. broth-er. Paul H. Taylor of Lakeview. Prior to the division of the Sharon Shar-on Stake the new high councilman council-man was senior president of the 233!h quorum of Seventy. Ruby S. Hunn, stake Relief Society president has chosen as her counselors Crissie N. Madsen Mad-sen and Lucy W. Poulson. FIRE DOES $7000 DAMAGE TO HOME The need for a fire department depart-ment in Orem was again demonstrated dem-onstrated last week when a fire, apparently starting from a chimney's chim-ney's spark caused approximately approximate-ly $7000 damage to a five-room frame house owned by Don Had-lock, Had-lock, 8th West and 4th North in Orem. It was estimated that $5000 of the loss was on the building and $2000 on the contents. Insur ance covered $4000 of the loss. Inasmuch as the Orem fire equipment, long ordered, has not yet been delivered the Provo Pro-vo fire department was called to extinguish the blaze. According to fire department reports, Mr. Hadlock's eight-year-old son, Don Jr., had cooked cook-ed his lunch on a stove in the kitchen and it is believed a spark from the stove fire caused the blaze. ALL-STAR SOFTBALL GAMES SET FOR FESTIVAL PROGRAM Two all-star softball games are scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, June 18 and 19 at 9 p.m. at the Orem city ball park as part of the Orem-Geneva Centennial Festival. On Wednesday evening two teams chosen from the players in Orem and Sharon stakes will compete. One team will be coached by Leonard Madsen and Sam Harris, with LeGrand Jar-man Jar-man and Clark Collings as base coaches. The team will include: Arlo Shumway, Dean Shumway, Ernest Baker, Lavel Swenson, Lafe Harris, Douglas Hawkins, Kay Madsen, Jack Shumway, Dpon Miner, Virgil Cook, Clyde Callas. Richard Nimer and Mr. Ash. The other team will be coached by Fred Fielding and John Spisak and Morbeth Snow and J. W. Hatfield will act as base coaches. Team members are Kent Fielding, Bob Calder, Lavel Edwards, Leonard McKay, Ollie Johnson, Frank Stratton, j Herb Stratton, Mr. Partridge, Mr. Brady, John Pino, Max Broadhead, Bruce Bliss, Mr. Sundberg and Sterling Bylund. On Thursday evening an all-star all-star team from all leagues will meet a team selected from the Geneva steel recreation lague. Sam Harris and Lonard Madsen will coach the Orem league team, which will include Virgil Cook, Kent Fielding, Arlo Shumway, Shum-way, Frank Stratton, Dean Shumway, Ernest Baker, Herb Stratton, Lavel Swenson, John Pino, Bruce Bliss, Mr. Sundberg and Jack Shumway. Orem Crash Injures Geo. Stratton Family Mrs. George Stratton, who was injured in a car crash Friday Fri-day near the U. S- 91-Canyon road intersection, was taken from the hospital to her' home on Saturday. She suffered a basal bas-al skull fracture and her condition condi-tion is still considered serious by attending physicians. Also injured in the crash was Mrs. Emma E. Stratton, 79, mother mo-ther of George Stratton, who suffered a fractured leg, an injured in-jured arm and bruises. She is also being treated at the George Stratton home. The accident occurred Friday afternoon when the Stratton car, traveling northward from Orem, Or-em, was struck headon by a machine ma-chine which was attempting to cross the highway from west to east. Mr. Stratton, who was driving, driv-ing, suffered bruises but was not badly injured. Driver of the other vehicle wrs cited by nolice officers for failure to yield. A group of relatives gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ludwig Poulson Sunday evening af'er church to visit Glen Draper, Drap-er, who is visiting here from Washington. D. C Lunch was served to Mr. Wilford Poulson, Mr. and Mrs- Owen Draper. Amy Taylor, Mrs. Emma Poulson, Poul-son, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Poulon, Eva Poulson, Dr. Draper anc Ihe host and hostess. : -- ' f f S i i f x - 1 I i Vr Lorna Anderson, ihe queen of Orem's centennial Festival, who will be presented at the recep lion which opens the three-day celebration, Tuesday, June 17 at the Scera lounge. RECEPTION TUESDAY AT SCERA TO HONOR QUEEN AND PIONEERS Orem's Centennial royalty, Queen Lorna Anderson and her attendants. Carol Memmott and Jackie Faulkner, will be honored honor-ed Tuesday at the Scera lounge from 3 to 6 p.m. at a public reception re-ception as the opening feature of the Orem Centennial Festival. The affair is sponsored by the combined women's clubs of the community. The royal party will be in formal attire and will be seated on a throne. The Daughters of Utah Pioneers will be special guests . The committee in charge of arrangements includes members mem-bers of the various clubs, Mrs. Ike' Boyce, Mrs. Antone Roh-bock, Roh-bock, Mrs. Julian Hansen, Mrs. Alex Josie, Mr?. Max Peterson, Mrs. Mildred Jacobson, Miss Evelyn Wentz. Mrs. Jesse Cord-ner, Cord-ner, Mrs. Ralph Schenck, and Mrs. Clarence York. Club members mem-bers will assist in serving and act as hostesses. The public is invited to attend at-tend the reception and meet the Festival queen and her party. TO ENTER FLOWERS AT FESTIVAL SHOW Amateur gardeners of the Of-em-Geneva area are invited to enter their floral arrang?ments in the Centennial Flower Show which is scheduled for Wednesday Wednes-day and Thursday at the Scera Theater, it was revealed by of ficers of the Orem Garden club, sponsors of the show. The flower show is not com petitive and everyone who has grown attractive flowers is urg ed to enter them. The flowers must be placed for exhibit be tween 8 and 10 a m. on Wed nesday and must be left for the two days. Mrs. Sam Crosby, Mrs. Steve Tursanski, Mrs. Alden Patten, and Mrs. Van Snow are on the flower committee. Mrs. LeGrand Fowlkes is president of the club. The club will also sponsor an eating concession during the three-day festival with proceeds to go to the putting on of the annual competitive flower show in August. Mrs. Evan Wilberg, Mrs. Clarence York and Mrs-Victor Mrs-Victor Johnson head the committee. com-mittee. The club is also aiding in 'he preparation of the Centen nial queen float for the festival oarades. Mrs. Eldon Adams is in charge of that committee. Class For Choristers And Orjranists Set The firt in a series of classes clas-ses for choristers and organists was held Thursday night in the music room of Lincoln high phool. according to E. B. Terry, instructor. In the future the classes will be hld at 8 p.m. very Tuesday nieht in the music room- All phnrisers and organists and bn draining in these canacities are urged to attend. Members of botl) stakes are invited. FUNERAL HELD HERE MONDAY FOR KENDELL BOULTER Funeral services for Kendell W. Boulter, 39, Orem public accountant, ac-countant, were held in the Sharon Shar-on ward chapel Monday afternoon. after-noon. He died at his home on June 6 of a heart ailment. Prayer Pray-er was offered at the home before be-fore the services by Ace Boulter. Boul-ter. Processional music was playei bv Roseltha Vernon and Clark Collings offered the invocation-Speakers invocation-Speakers at the service ere Jean Cobbley of Idaho : W. B. Enniss of Draper, Glen Vernon and Stanley J. Finch. Musical numbers were furnished by Elvis Elv-is B. Terry. Robert Downs, Al-ene Al-ene Edwards and a trio, Kath-ryn Kath-ryn Christensen, Carol Stubbs and Maree Rohbock. Elwood Carter dedicated the grave in the Pleasant Grove cemeiry. Mr. Boulter was born Feb. 8, 1908, in Lindon, the son of Willard and Emily Cobbley Boulter. Boul-ter. He attended school in Lindon Lind-on and Pleasant Grove and graduated grad-uated from the Henager's business busi-ness college in Salt Lake City. He married Inez Newell, Dec. 28, 1928 and they lived in Salt Lake City until they moved to Orem five years ago. Mr. Boulter was active in the LDS church. He had been superintendent of the Sunday school of Sharon ward and was assistant ward clerk at the time of his death. He is survived by his widow, two sons, K. Richard and Terry A. Boulter ;his parents and the following brothers and sisters, Vance Boulter and Emily Tyler, Salt Lake City, Mrs. Zella Jepp-son. Jepp-son. Magna, Ace Boulter, Provo, Willard Boulter, San Francisco, Mrs. Verla Lund KlamatTfTalls, Oregon and Mrs. Voy Madsen, Magna. OREM GEEH LICENSE INCREASED TO $500 An ordinance which will in crease the price of beer liensees in Orem City to $500 was pass ed by a unanimous vote of the Orem City Council at a meeting Wednesday night in the city hall. The ordinance takes effect upon up-on its publication in this issue of the Orem-Geneva Times- Beer licenses will expire on June 30. Testimonial To Honor Missionary ft-. 'I RUSSELL H. HANSEN Russell H. Hansen will be honored at a testimonial meeting Sunday evening at 7:30 in the Sharon ward chapel. He has been called to fulfill a mission to the Western states. He will enter the mission home Monday, June 16. Elder Hansen graduated from the Lincoln high school and the LDS Seminary and has spent two years in service with the Merchant Marine. An interesting program has been arranged for Sunday evening eve-ning with special musical numbers num-bers and remarks by J. Clayton Clay-ton Watts, C. Wilford Larsen, Bishop Stanley Finch and the missionary. Chamber of Commerce Votes Name Change: Orem io Geneva RAINS DAMAGE HAY, THREATEN BERRIES, GRAIN CROP HERE Utah county growers of hay, grain and strawberries watched the skies anxiously today and hoped for the clearing skies and warmer weather which the ex perts predicted. Persistent rajns since Sunday have laid down over an inch of moisture and are threatening the destruction of approximately one-third of Utah county's 35,- 000 acres of first crop hay. S. R. Boswell, county agent, estimated this week that a third of the county's hay is cut and awaiting dry weather for raking and stacking. Dry weather by weekend will save most of the hay but its nutritive value will be lessened. The wet, cool weather was not destroying strawberries but it was keeping pickers from the fields and threatened to shorten the crop. As long as temperatures tempera-tures remain low, experts declare, de-clare, the danger of mildew on the berries is minimized- Growers of irrigated wheat in the county reported that the greatest danger to that crop was in the possibility of high winds this weekend. Wheat here is tall enough to be toppled by winds now that the ground is moist. Snow was low on Timpanogos Peak all day Wednesday to threaten the area with frost, but forecasts assured farmers of higher temperatures for the weekend. Lee R. Taylor, secretary of the Utah County Farm Labor association, asso-ciation, reported that the rains had discouraged many migrant workers. All of the 154 Mexican laborers were still in the county. Sixty-five were camped at Orem to aid in the strawberry harvest, with the remainder working in the beets near Spanish Fork. In some sections of the state the storms were hailed. Range conditions in eastern Utah were reported best in over a decade because of the heavy rains. FUNERAL SERVICES SET FRIDAY FOR ELLEN M. PATTEH Funeral services for Ellen Murdock Patten will be conducted con-ducted Friday, June 13 at 2 p. m. in the Pleasant View ward chapel under the direction of Bishop Biiss Allred. Burial will be in the Provo City burial park. Mrs. Patten died at her home in Pleasant View Tuesday morning morn-ing of a blood clot. She was the wife of Leland Stanford Patten. She was born March 7, 1907 in Heber, the daughter of John H-and H-and Emily Bond Murdock. She attended school in Heber and Provo and the Lincoln High school in Orem. The family moved mov-ed to Pleasant View in 1920. She married Mr. Patten Dec 29, 1925 in Salt Lake City. She is a member of the LDS church and has acted as a Relief Society teacher. Surviving are her husband, two sons, Kent and David, four daughters, Mrs. Joyce Neves, Pleasant Grove, and Joan, Caro lyn and Linda Patten of Pleasant Pleas-ant View; her mother, Mrs. Em ily Murdock Biggs, Orem; three sifters, Mrs. Marella Stanley and Mrs. Leah Kay of Heber, and Kdith Murdock of Provo; two brothers, Paul B. Murdock, Salt Lake City and Thomas C. Mur- Hoek. Heber; four half-sisters. Millie Witt, Salem, Eliza Sellers and Pearl Buckley, Provo and Sadie Thurman. Heber: one half-brother. half-brother. Joseph S. Murdock of California. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Shepard-son Shepard-son are the parents of a baby girl bcr Saturday, June 7 at the Utah Valley hospital. 1947 Strawberry Crop Will Treble 1946's In spite of unfortunate weath er conditions and other unfavorable unfavor-able factors, Orem berry grow ers will market approximately 100,000 cases of strawberries before be-fore the season is out, according to calculations made by Philo T, Edwards, Orem fruit man. This number will treble the number of berries harvested in 1946. With growers getting a yield of approximately 500 cases of berries to the acre, prpduction is expected to hit a new high this year. Of all berries harvested in Orem about 25 percent are shipped ship-ped to commercial processors and 75 perecent are sold on the onen market, according to Mr. Edwards. With prices ranging from $2.50 to $2. 75 a case, strawberries strawber-ries are being priced at about 35 percent less than last year in spite of the fact that labor costs remain the same and the cost of containers is higher. Still, on the whole, growers will net as much, if not more, this year than last year, because of the increase in volume of production. produc-tion. If these figures are any indication indi-cation of a successful fruit cron in Orem this year it will add further to her stature as a leading lead-ing fruit growing community in Utah. NEW CITY ENGINEER MMFD RY COUNCIL Leorard Peckman was named Orem City Engineer at a meeting meet-ing of the Orem C;'v Council hold in the city hail Wednesday night, according to Mayor J. W. Gillman. Mr. Bcckman will be retained on a part time basis according to the needs of the city. He is especially qualified for the position posi-tion of ciy engineer because of his broad background in Los Angeles working in the planning of subdivisions. BUILDING IN OREM QUARTER MILLION Over $300,000 in building has been authorized in Orem City since the first of the year, Ed Wickman, building instpector said today. This amount is over 50 percent of the entire amount authorized last year. Of this amount $16,000 was authorized during January and February, $148,000 during March, $114 during April, and $30,000 during May. Mr. Wickman expressed the opinion that there is a general slump in building at this time, but the next few months will show increased activity. The Eagle Scouts of the Orem- Sharon district will meet Sunday, Sun-day, June 16 at 4:30 p.m. at the home of Bertram Rigby . Statewide Centennial Events Current: Utah Centennial Exposition Ex-position Slate Fair Grounds Salt Lake-June Lake-June 16-21 Comic Opera, "Pinafore" Exposition theater. the-ater. Salt Lake by American-Savoy Company. June 16-22 Jimmy Lynch's Death Dodgers, grandstand. Exposition, Salt Lake. June 16-17 Pageant, Salt Lake Tabernacle-June Tabernacle-June 20-21 NCAA Track and Field Meet. Ute Stadium. Stad-ium. June 22 Tabernacle Choir Concert. Leonard Warren, Met. Opera Baritone as soloist. NAME CHANGE TO BE SOUGHT AS AID TO LOCAL BUSINESS The Orem Chamber of Commerce Com-merce voted unanimously at its noon meeting Monday to accept as one of its projects the changing chang-ing of Orem's name to "Geneva" and will begin immediately the study of the steps necessary to effect the change. The decision came after a thorough discussion of the project pro-ject in which it was pointed out that Orem's finest potential resource re-source the Geneva Steel Plant might become associated in the minds of the nation's business busi-ness with Provo, American Fork or Pleasant Grove, rather than with its geographic home, Orem, unless the name were changed to Geneva. Members of the chamber declared de-clared that the business of the community would gain immeasurably immeas-urably by the change because of the publicity which results from the steel plant being reflected re-flected to the vicinity. Some members declared that they favored the change because of the eunhony of the word Geneva over that of Orem. Chamber of commerce members mem-bers also discussed the program of traffic safety in Orem. It was pointed out that it is impossible to build a city on a speedway, and that shopping in Orem was hazardous because of the steady trcam of traffic, only about five percent of which stops in the city. Most of the members favored favor-ed the diversion of traffic and asked that the chamber go on record favoring the construction of the west-Utah county highway high-way which will by-pass Orem on the western side of Geneva Steel. It was agreed by all members that the traffic hazards on U. S. 91 through Orem are the number num-ber one problem which faces the community, and pointed to the recent epidemic of accidents on the stretch during the past 10 days, five accidents have injured injur-ed eight persons recently. Lionel Fairbanks, chamber president, conducred the meeting. meet-ing. Business included the laying lay-ing of plans for the group's participation par-ticipation in the Centennial parade. par-ade. Harry Butler, chamber secretary, sec-retary, scored the proposal of the city council in raising the beer license cost in Orem from $125 to $500. No action was taken tak-en by the group. Second Home in Week Destroyed By Fire The second serious fire In Orem within a week's time destroyed de-stroyed a two-room frame home owned by Byron Farnworth, 16 South and Second East. Firemen who received the alarm at 4:05 a.m. Tuesday could not determine the cause of the blaze. The loss of the building and its contents valued at $1,500 was covered by $1,100 insuiv ance. The home which was destroyed destroy-ed Tuesday was damaged on June 6 to the extent of $50 as a result of an electric short. After Af-ter the June 6 fire, the Farns-worths Farns-worths moved into a new brick home thev had built adjacent to the frame structure. Nobody was home, however, when Tuesday's Tues-day's fire broke out, the Farn-worths Farn-worths having gone to spend the nifht with relatives. A neighbor neigh-bor turned in the alarm and the house was burning TereeTy when firemen arrived. The Eldprs of Vermont ward nnd their wHr held a canvon nartv at Cnnvnn Glen Saturday evening. Wavne Bellows was in charge of arrangements. A ball same, horse shoe pitching contests con-tests and a delicious supper were enjoyed. A meeting for the High Pries's pf Vermont wrd will be held Sunday, June 15 at 2 p.m. in the Seminary building. |